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malgor on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-1098
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:38:12 +0000malgor1098@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>When sestina poets get themselves in a muddle, I imagine they say 'I'm all at sixes and sixes'. Have you an example of sestina extended metaphor failure you can share, sauce?
</p>sauce on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-1093
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:28:11 +0000sauce1093@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Can we hijack this thread for other revolting pedantries?</p>
<p>I'm critiquing poetry at the moment and some poets just cannot keep their extended metaphors up for a full sestina.
</p>malgor on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-1084
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:39:09 +0000malgor1084@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Mr Thompson, I do believe that if a tag has already been entered, subsequent tags will auto-modify themselves to match the original version. So, 'finger's of fish' will turn itself into 'Fingers of Fish' if the original was entered with leading capitalisation and no apostrophe. This makes sense to avoid duplication.
</p>Scroat on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-1017
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:44:30 +0000Scroat1017@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>No - it's not fixed. She's still saying 'haitch.'
</p>Hunter F. Thompson on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-981
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:04:42 +0000Hunter F. Thompson981@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Now here's a clue which ought to be carefully weighed: I have been attempting to tag these various apostrophe threads with the form of "writer" complained of (solitary, plural, possessive plural) but the tag bag (at the top RH) swallows apostrophes. </p>
<p>I was hoping to produce an interesting set of zoom-words in that blue box, at the top of the Forum, but have so far been unsuccessful.
</p>dominic on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-972
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:20:33 +0000dominic972@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Fixed.
</p>Scroat on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-951
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:52:41 +0000Scroat951@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>No - Oxfordshire/Berkshire border. </p>
<p>Je suis désolée.
</p>rikkor on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-875
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:48:36 +0000rikkor875@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Scroat, is your daughter from Ireland by any chance?
</p>MADJEZ on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-870
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:01:24 +0000MADJEZ870@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>you could always arksk them not to ! (shudder).
</p>MrChigleysAunt on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-865
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:13:01 +0000MrChigleysAunt865@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>My children too! What is really annoying is that it is about the only time they ever sound the letter H (we live in 'ampshire).
</p>Scroat on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-862
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:35:06 +0000Scroat862@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>I'm afraid I'm as bad as the next chap when it comes to exactitude in punctuation. </p>
<p>And my daughter has started saying 'haitch' instead of 'aitch.' A sad day indeed.
</p>Hunter F. Thompson on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-826
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:38:01 +0000Hunter F. Thompson826@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Mr Roat, the old adadge is posted elsewhere and is reposted for your amusement: <em>when exception proves the rule, your pedant is a useful tool.</em>
</p>Scroat on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-765
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:36:35 +0000Scroat765@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>You're a pedantic butt
</p>MADJEZ on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-754
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:35:16 +0000MADJEZ754@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Newsbiscuit community relieved as MrChigleysAunt emerges from a comma. Should make a full recovery.
</p>Hunter F. Thompson on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-752
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:25:28 +0000Hunter F. Thompson752@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>More to the point, this website has US spell-check running. Arrrgh!
</p>Scroat on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-653
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:05:57 +0000Scroat653@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>CRB checks for all of you.
</p>MrChigleysAunt on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-583
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:58:33 +0000MrChigleysAunt583@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>None of them actually do! Oh, Mr Thompson, you are a one!
</p>rikkor on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-574
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:57:39 +0000rikkor574@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Hint: pedantic is normally spelled "pendantic" here. It has something to do with wearing a necklace, I believe. I'm still waiting for them to figure out the possessive of more than one writer.
</p>Hunter F. Thompson on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-573
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:38:23 +0000Hunter F. Thompson573@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Those very tags also caught my attention. The problem with all the versions which you have tactfully provided, ma chère Tante, is that none of them actually do the job of correctly expressing what has to happen to any number of nouns separated from their gerunds and accompanied by free floating infinitives. </p>
<p>To provide coherent and painless instructions for parsing, the expression should read: "separated by a comma". And that isn't the only thing wrong with it either, as you have pleasantly attempted to hint.</p>
<p>And yet there it is.
</p>MrChigleysAunt on "Call me pedantic but"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-475
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:23:40 +0000MrChigleysAunt475@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>the Tags field at the foot of the New Topic form says "(comma seperated)", not "comma separated" (or should it be comma-separated?. Yes, children are starving around the World and people are blowing each other up, but still this pains me every time I see it. Civilization surely needn't crumble here at NewsBiscuit.<br />
I assume this is not something Nice Admin Lady has any control over but I thought I'd mention it.
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